At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
I'm all for 'tools,' not 'schools,' of therapy. To me, the schools of therapy compete much like religions, or even cults, all claiming to know the cause and to have the best method for treating people.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.
All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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